The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-11-04
BILL or FARE.
The Largo Amount OF Provisions For an
Ocean steamer.-Wbat Ocean Tsave-
1ers Drink.

The bar on an ocean vessel is one OF the
most profitable features OF the ship, and 1t
has been said that 5000 has frequently
been cleared on one voyage by u hrJt-cllss
| steamer in the busy season. The pos
| sibilties in this direction may be judged
| from the fact that the Etruria puts on
board at Liverpool for the round voyage
| LOO bottles of champagne, $50 bottles OF
claret 5000 bottles OF ale, $500 bottles OF
| porter, 1850 bottles OF mineral water and
$50 bottles Of various spirits, while the
annual consumption Of the Cunard Line
is as follows: 5000 quarts and 1888
| pints OF champagne, 1904 quarts and
1910 pints Of claret, with 1900 bottles OF
other wines, 4SY,344 bottles of ale and
| porter, 174,921 bottles Of mineral waters,
| $4,000 bottles OF spirits, 34,360 pounds OF
tobacco, 63,340 cigars and 5o,S75 cigar
cites.
| Lemons are used on an average at the
rate of II per head day, and apples
| when in season at the rate Of 23 per head
per day, while the consumption OF oran-
ges is about 8 per head per day.
very important element in the ex-
pense OF trip is crockery, which is
broken at the rate of 800 plates, $50 cups,
43S saucers, 1918 tumblers, 200 wine
glasses. 81 decanters and 63 water bottles
in a single voyage, from which one might
infer that the passengers fought the whole
way over. The broken waiter bottles is
the only part we don't regret.
The Etrurias total consumption Of
coal is 800 tons per day, or II tons per
hour. Besides the coal, l3O gallons Of oil
are used daily for journals, bearings, &c.
Her crew is as follows: Captain, d oti-
GERS, surgeon, purser, 46 seanen, carpen-
ter and joiner, boatswain and mate,
masters-at-arms, IL engineers, 1l2 fire.
men and trimmers, ~ stewards, 8
stewardesses "a cooks, bakers and as
sistants; in all 2S7 hands. The amount
OF provisions, groceries, &C., on board at
the time Of sailing is very large. For
single passage to the westward with 547
cabin passengers and a crew OF 2ST per-
sons, she had, when leaving Liverpool on
2Sth August last the following quantities
of provisions 1850 lbs. fresh beef, 700
lbs. corned beef, 5,230 lbs. mutton, $50
lbs lamb, $50 lbs veal, $50 lbs. pork, q
600 lbs fresh fish, 800 fowls, 800
chickens, 100 ducks, so geese, so turkeys,
200 brace grouse, 10 tons potatoes, so
hampers OF vegetables, 2S0 quarts of ice
cream, 1000 quarts milk and 800 eggs.
In groceries alone there were over two
hundred different articles, including (for
the round voyage of twenty-five days
$50 lbs. tea, l,2O0 lbs. coffee, 1900 lbs.
white sugar, $500 lbs. moist sugar, $50
lbs. pulverized sugar, 1900 lbs cheese,
1000 lbs. butter, $500 lbs. of ham, 1000
lbs. bacon.
As regards the consumption on board
the Cunard feet for one year it can
almost be said that their sheep and oxen
'feed on thousand hills" for its ships
consume no less than 4,656 sheep, l,SO0
lambs and 2,474 oxen, an array OF fiocks
and herds surprising in extent the pos.
sessions of many pastoral patriarch OF
ancient times.
This is equivalent to 2,O91,754 pounds
OF meat or four pounds per minute. The
passengers consume S3l ,6O3 eggs, or more
than IA per minute, and drink 21,OOO
pounds Of tea in the year and Il, 200
pounds Of coffee, sweetened by 296, 100
pounds of sugar while the followin,
articles also figure largely; One and one
nalf tons OF mustard, II Of pepper, 7,2l'
bottles pickles, 5000 tins sardines, 3,
Jars jams, 10 tons marmalade, % ton
raisins, currants and figs, l3 tons spill
peas, Is tons pearl barley, II tons rice
"a tons oatmeal, AGO tons -four, % ton
biscuit, 80 tons salt, 4S,902 loaves OF breat
s pounds each, So tons ham, 20 ton
bacon, Is tons cheese, $50 tons potatoes
24,075 fowls, 4,230 ducks, 2,200 turkeys
2,200 geese, 3l,3l2 tablets Pears soap
3,4s4 pounds Windsor soap, 10 tons vel
low soap, in addition to the above
mentioned items from the bar.
The heaviest item in the annual cor
sumption is naturally coal OF which ar
burned 35G,7 764 TONS or almost 1000 ton
for every day in the year The col
sumption of engine oil is l04,043 gallons
of burning oils, 23,020 gallons; of pain
oil, $3.50 gallons; OF waste, 80 tons {
white lead 81 tons; of red lead II ton
With respect to the aggregate employ
ment of labor by the Cunard Compan.
it requires 81 captains, 146 officers +.
engineers, boiler makers AMI carpenter
665 seamen, 9l6 tiremen, 900 steward
S2 stewardesses, AZ women to keep til
upholstery and linen in order with ,lC
OF shore gang or about 4,500 people I
run the ships, which traverse yearly
distance equal to five times that betwee
the earth and the moon.